Australian govt welcomes new suppliers to its cloud services panel

Leon Spencer |
April 28, 2017

Infosys, Atos and Southern Cross Computer Systems are among the latest inductees to the panel

Australian Government chief technology officer, John Sheridan.

The month of April has seen no fewer than 11 new suppliers join the Federal Government's ever-growing cloud services procurement panel arrangement, with Infosys, Atos and Southern Cross Computer Systems among the latest entrants.

Australian Government Chief Technology Officer (CTO), John Sheridan, named the latest additions to the panel on 27 April, adding to four new entrants he revealed on 5 April.

To date, the Government's cloud services panel claims 182 local IT providers as suppliers, with names such as CA Technologies, Bulletproof, Cisco Systems Australia, Data#3, iiNet, IBM Australia, and Dimension Data Australia among those on the ever-increasing list of partners.

Below is a list of the new suppliers that have been added to the whole-of-government cloud services panel during April:

Aquasora Pty Ltd

Atos (Australia) Pty Ltd

Capsicum Business Architects Pty Ltd

Instaclustr Pty Limited

CDRU NSW Pty Ltd

Fluccs - The Australian Cloud Pty Ltd

JJM Holdings Pty Limited

RedBack Consulting Pty Ltd

Southern Cross Computer Systems Pty Ltd

Infosys Technologies Limited

AvePoint AU Pty Ltd

"All new Panellists will be submitting services for inclusion on the Cloud Services Panel Service Catalogue shortly. These services will soon be available for Agencies to procure via the ICT Procurement Portal," Sheridan said in a blog post.

The Department of Finance established the whole-of-government cloud services panel In January 2015. The procurement panel arrangement's current standing offer runs from 30 January 2015 to 31 March 2018.

The aim of the panel arrangement is to offer public agencies a "scalable and flexible cloud services via industry offerings and do so in a way that reduces the burden on industry," according to Sheridan.

The panel covers platform-as-a-service, software-as-a-service, and infrastructure-as-a-service, along with services such as cloud service optimisation and integration.